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Segesser Hide Paintings Documentation Collection
Collection
Identifier: AC 208
Scope and Content
The collection documents course of initial inquiries, period of in-loan arrangements, purchase, and post-acquisition activities regarding the Segesser paintings. The acquisition of the two Segesser paintings done on buffalo hides was achieved after negotiations between officials of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation, The Museum of New Mexico, and the Palace of the Governors, on the one hand, and Dr. Andre Segesser, on the other hand. The two hide paintings, designated as Segesser I...
Dates:
1959-1989
Found in:
Fray Angélico Chávez History Library
Walter Lowry Finley Collection
Collection
Identifier: AC 083-P
Scope and Content
Collection consists primarily of typescript copies of 34 letters Walter L. Finely wrote, while stationed in the territory of New Mexico to his mother in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1879-1881. Letters depict the routine life of a young officer stationed at various posts in New Mexico and the military actions taken against Victorio and his Apache supporters. Also included are: typed newspaper transcripts from the Daily New Mexican and ...
Dates:
1879-1883; 1876-1881
Found in:
Fray Angélico Chávez History Library